Super-Audio CD

Robert Schumann was the most confessional of composers. And many of the songs from his great Liederjahr of 1840 were in essence love songs to Clara Wieck. In them he could express overtly what had been merely implicit in his piano music: his fears and...

Robert Schumann rated the string quartet genre very highly, describing it as 'noble' and considering it to be one of the most revealing in terms of compositional craftsmanship. Possibly it was the high regard in which he held the genre that for so long...

Risto-Matti Mann writes of this new release: "Only a small sample of recent Finnish piano repertoire can be included on this one [album]. The purpose of this collection is not to paint a complete picture of what new Finnish piano music is. Also, I awoke...

Richard Strauss's original working title his Symphonia Domestica was "My home: A symphonic portrait of my family and myself" and was intended as a homely sequel to his Ein Heldenleben. Instead of the hero's struggle for supremacy, Symphonia presents a...

Richard Strauss's legendary Joseph Legende is complemented by the love scene from Feuersnot and the early work Festmarsch. All are performed by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Neeme J?rvi, who in 2012 celebrated his thirty-year recording career...

Richard Strauss' father, Franz Strauss, was one of the most prominent horn virtuosos of the time, and the horn was one of the instruments for which Richard had a predilection throughout his life. With his "Serenade," Strauss junior convinced conductor...

Richard Strauss composed a career total of more than two hundred songs, most of them for a high female voice. The master repeatedlyw as inspired by sopranos, and the fact that he married one of these ladies, Pauline de Ahna, is proof of his intimate...

Restored and remastered from the original master tapes, this classic blues-rock sounds better than ever on this limited edition high resolution Super Audio CD. Listening to it is like having Stevie and Double Trouble playing in your living room or car...

Resonating across more than five centuries, expressions of personal piety and prayer fill these works by a quartet of Franco-Flemish composers, all born in the 15th century, and their modern-day colleagues, Estonian Cyrillus Kreek (1889-1962) and...

Renowned French pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard kicks off his exclusive engagement to PENTATONE with a recording of Olivier Messiaen's Catalogue d'Oiseaux (1956-1958). The pianist had intimate ties to the composer himself and his wife, Yvonne Loriod, for...

Renata Pereira writes of this new release: "This album is entirely dedicated to the music of Brazil. It is very different from Falando Brasileiro (2014) because it is a Brazilian music sound photograph of the twentieth century. It is also very special...

Renaissance music from Spain has come to mean the works of composers such as Toms Lu?s de Victoria or Francisco Guerrero rather than their predecessors. But composers such as Francisco de Pe?alosa - who died in 1528, the same year that Guerrero was born...